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emmet

/em-it/US // ˈɛm ɪt //UK // (ˈɛmɪt) //

埃米特

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chiefly Dialect.

    • : an ant.

Examples

  • Robert Emmet for an abortive attempt to seize Dublin Castle was condemned and executed in 1803.

  • The first of these was a tract “What Emmet means in 1915,” significant of the direction in which minds were turning at the time.

  • Doctor Thomas Addis Emmet, only just dead, over ninety, in his younger years as a busy medical practitioner never kept a horse.

  • Those of Pinkney and Emmet, however, contained much florid "eloquence."

  • The cattle have been with Emmet's company from the time they left Nauvoo.